FutureStructure Infrastructure
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Each winning city will receive an individualized Readiness Workshop and host of tech tools to help further its efforts toward becoming a smart city.
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Some 1,500 intersections in Los Angeles to get upgraded with new traffic signal equipment.
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The Boring Company will construct a four-mile tunnel to connect a rail station with Ontario International Airport in the Los Angeles region. The tunnel will accommodate zero-emission and possibly autonomous vehicles.
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One automotive executive speculates that the company has little interest in manufacturing its own automobile, but would like to take advantage of adding greater Internet connectivity inside cars.
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The new buses will be equipped with GPS tracking capabilities for users' smartphones, security cameras and an old feature: hand straps to hold onto when forced to stand.
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Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf penned a letter to Uber executives before they take over the Sears building in Downtown. In it, she urges the company to give back and understand the community.
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The Detroit-based NextHome has built a prototype smart home that generates its own energy and distributes the power to interconnected devices.
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The lab will explore ideas for reducing the cost of building, buying and owning homes, according to the mayor’s office.
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The ‘complete streets’ movement is reshaping urban boulevards, small-town main streets and even rural highways. But there are still plenty of bumps in the road.
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Green investments can save money, but appraisers often don't take into account their full value when assessing buildings, a pair of reports from the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab asserts.
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The city plans to mount sensors on public infrastructure as a tool for attracting business and gathering data for city employees.
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By simulating cities from the "bottom-up," scientists can help us plan for the future.
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A new park exhibit is opening to show how an unused trolley station could be put into use. Although inside, the plants are able to receive enough sunlight to grow using a complex system of lenses and mirrors.
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The more you look at the California high-speed rail project's finances, the shakier they seem.
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Canada's Stephen Harper and Australia's Tony Abbott, both of whom take anti-climate stances, have been displaced. What does this say about climate as a voter issue?
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Foxconn, Apple's main manufacturer, has released a statement pledging to produce 400 megawatts of solar power.
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The state will pay less for customers' unused solar power, but a green energy advocacy institute says that presents an opportunity for people to use as much of their own power as possible instead of sending it back to the grid.
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The upgrades will allow drivers to prepay for and reserve spots in downtown garages in hopes of alleviating congestion before the city's new arena opens.
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Soitec's concentrated solar technology plant located in Rancho Bernardo will begin selling its assets, as the market of concentrated solar energy never really took off.
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The state’s voters will decide on two proposals that politicians hope will help pay for road repairs and other transportation projects. But both use existing state money, not new funds.
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X-Ray and 3-D imaging are combined to map out the most at-risk regions of California forests due to the drought.
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